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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
It's still under copyright for another 13+ years, and it's pretty obvious that Random House has the rights to it and most if not all of the Faulkner novels. I think this is a dodgy edition and buyers run the risk of Amazon taking it away like they did with the dodgy edition of one of Orwell's novels (1984 IIRC).
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If you preview the book, you'll find that it has the Random House logo and the original copyright of 1929, along with the renewed copyright date of 1956 - renewed while Faulkner was still alive.
I personally don't see this as a bogus edition, unless there is something I am missing.
Back in the mid-'70s (or possibly early '80s), Random House attempted to restore the original texts on a number of his important works that had been edited when they were first published. Those texts were later restored to (in my words) his 'preferred texts'.
Over the years, I've read both versions, mainly because I love Faulkner's work.